Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Council member William J. Dean '59 proposed that a full Council meeting should be held to examine the report of the HYRC investigating committee, if the report were received early enough to make examination feasible. The motion was passed...
Meanwhile, City Councilor Al Vellucci threatened to raise M.I.T.'s tax assessment to pay for the damage caused by the rioting but made no formal motion in the council...
Died. Lieut. General Hubert Reilly Harmon, 64, U.S.A.F. (ret.) career flyer who planned and set in motion the U.S.'s new Air Force Academy, served (1954-56) as its first superintendent; of lung cancer; near San Antonio. A classmate of Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, and a brother of Lieut. General Millard Fillmore Harmon, World War II commander of the Strategic Air Force in the Pacific who was lost at sea in 1945, "Doodle" Harmon got a taste of the schoolmaster's side of soldiering as commander (1941-42) of the Gulf Coast Air Force Training Center, later...
...Bulwark ... In Oxford, England, after lengthy debate, the Union Society of Oxford University voted 280-203 in favor of the motion: "This House will resist a spread of the American way of life to this country...
...laughed back the query of one bystander, "Do you come with the car?," replying "No, should I?" She also assured another that she could really type with no trouble when the car was in motion. At that, one trench-coated spectator grunted out from under his peaked cap, "This country has gone to Hell...